Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.
Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.
He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.
The age of drone on drone violence will make war more palatable to citizens.
Possible. It does seem like drones fighting drones should mean less human casualties, which has both a humanitarian side and an escalation risk side.
Then again a lot of people have thought their weapons would make war less deadly, and been very wrong, including the case of WWI-era artillery.
They “accidentally” told the drones/robots to attack the schools and hospitals. “We would never do that on purpose”
“Well why were the terrorists using school children as human shields!”
I doubt it will ever stop
This, but also if you aren’t putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.
I really, honestly hope you are right. Sadly, I think you are wrong. I’ve recently been exposed to the concepts of “human safari” and “drone siege” and they aren’t pretty. “Drone on drone” might be just the preamble of these.
No preamble, unfortunately. The Russians are doing these “human safaris”, which are, of course, clear as day war crimes, to train their drone pilots.
Also to terrorize and wear out the civilian population of course, which is the Russian way of war.
AI drones are coming along, but these won’t only be used on other drones or robots, that much we can know already.
Indeed, I meant that in a hypothetical “drone vs drone” war, after the drones win the attacks on civilians and sieges will most likely come after.
I do not mean it will be tolerable to be near. I mean citizens of nations who choose war will tolerate it more if their own soldiers are not dying in war. If war requires less people and more “stuff” to wage, citizens will feel less motivation to speak out against it. It will make waging war more of an option not less of one, if only equipment is being lost.
How long until inter-country conflicts are settled by robot battles and we’re basically living the plot of Robo Jox?
As hard as that shit goes, we will probably never see an age of human piloted robots.